Two years of doing necropsies in college.... I have to have something to show for it.

Are you married to or related to "Quincy"?

I am not an expert, but couldnt the deer have died from lead/metal poisoning from toting a chunk of it around near his lungs and throat? Around here that is a trophy buck. I used to have some rifled slugs that my grandfather gave me with my double barrel shotgun when I was 13 yrs old. They where old enough to have the name pretty much worn off from the wax paper cases but man did they kick lol.

That was my guess as well....although I am by no means a slug expert. Sad to see a big buck go like that, but like you said, bad shots happen.

Quite possibly a Fiocchi Aero slug.

I was also going to guess Brenneke,or how ever it is spelled.I don't have a lot of knowledge about slugs though.It just looks similar to photographs I have seen of their slug.A shame to have the animal go to waste and to have it mess up your stand location.

looks like a brenekke slug to me..

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Thanks guys. It is a Brenneke. A Brenneke K.O. slug.

I appreciate the help.

Well Christine you beat me by 59 minutes. I was just heading out to the garage to take a couple pics of the Brenekke slugs. I knew it when I saw it. I shoot pretty much exclusively Brenekke slugs.

As for the front shot, I say take them if it's head on and you're entering the body, but not angled. It looks like they might have been trying for a high neck (spine) shot. Actually I'm quite suprised that the slug only entered and stopped so quickly. That is telling me it was a pretty far shot (over 150 - or more?) and the slug lost most of it's energy. Probobly explains why the deer got away too.